NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 998
HOUSE BILL 567

AN ACT TO AMEND PART 2 OF ARTICLE 3 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN ELIGIBLE FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Part 2, entitled "Aid to Dependent Children", of Article 3 of Chapter 108 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following G.S. 108‑49, to be numbered G.S. 108‑50, and to read as follows:
"§ 108‑50.  Dependent children of unemployed parents: Cooperative arrangements with employment offices: Termination of Federal aid. (a) The term 'dependent child' as used in this Section shall, in addition to the definition set forth in G.S. 108‑49, include any needy child under the age of 18 years who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the unemployment of a parent and who is living with any of the relatives specified in G.S. 108‑49 in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their home.
"(b)	An unemployed parent, within the meaning of this Section, is defined as an employable person who is residing in North Carolina; who is registered with the Employment Security Commission for work; who has no employment; who has no Social Security benefits; and who has received unemployment compensation benefits but has exhausted the full benefits to which such parent was entitled.
"(c)	The State Board of Public Welfare shall by rule and regulation provide for the entering into of cooperative agreements with the various public employment offices in the State, including appropriate provisions for registration and periodic re-registration of the unemployed parent of any such child, and for maximum utilization of the job placement services and other services and facilities of such employment offices.
"(d)	If at the end of the period set forth in the 1961 amendment to the Federal Social Security Act by the 87th Congress (June 30, 1962), or at any future date, there is a termination of Federal aid for the purposes set forth in this Section, this Section shall be ipso facto repealed and declared null and void in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 108‑76."
Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Public Welfare for the fiscal year 1961‑62 the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), and for the fiscal year 1962‑63, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), for and only for the purposes of this Act. State expenditures for the purposes of this Act shall not exceed the sums hereinabove appropriated, and no additional funds shall be transferred or allocated for the purposes of this Section.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1961.